ACQUISITION OF LAND FOR NELSON COLLEGE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6946, 27 June 1929, Page 6

ACQUISITION OF LAND FOR NELSON COLLEGE

FOR TWO HOSTELS. Per Press Association. NELSON, Last Night. The Minister of Education (Hon. H. Atmore) has telegraphed to Mr. Prank Hamilton, chairman of the Nelson College Board of Governors, intimating that Cabinet had agreed to his recommendation for a grant for the acquisition of seven acres near the colloge. The first act of the now Minister was to obtain a grant for the purpose of erecting two hostels to meet the overcrowding existing in the boarding accommodation in connection with the rapidly growing institution. It is proposed to erect two hostels on terraces, that will give a very pleasing noncontinuous lino of buildings, running from the present main sitructuro by Waimca road right through to the hillside. The Minister’s further plan is to acquire some acres on the western slope of the Grampians at the end so that this may be planted with trees, to make a proper setting for the new buildings. The transaction makes a distinctly forward step in the progress of one of the most notable educational institutions iu tho Dominion.